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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Oscillatoriopsis schopfii

Name: Oscillatoriopsis schopfii Oehler 1977

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: schop’fi.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. schopfii, named in honor of Prof. J. William Schopf for his contribution on microscopic algal remains to Precambrian geology

Pronunciation, gender: S͡HOP-fi-i, feminine

Holotype: CPC 16921

Valid publication: Oehler JH. Microflora of the H.Y.C. Pyritic Shale Member of the Barney Creek Formation (McArthur Group), middle Proterozoic of northern Australia. Alcheringa 1977; 1:315-349.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

Taxonomic status: correct name

Parent taxon: Oscillatoriopsis Schopf 1968

Assigned by: Oehler JH. Microflora of the H.Y.C. Pyritic Shale Member of the Barney Creek Formation (McArthur Group), middle Proterozoic of northern Australia. Alcheringa 1977; 1:315-349.

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Record number: 42004
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